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This is the tenth in a series of audio podcasts by Michael Schwartz -- Chiriqui Life Stories. This new podcast is a conversation with Nyeneweh (Nina) Kieh and Baris Ger. Nina and Baris truly are an international couple. They have lived in New York, Puerto Rico, Liberia, and Istanbul before settling in Boquete. Nina began legal training as an attorney, but became disenchanted with the "system". She then turned to teaching English as a second language. Baris was a fashion designer in New York and his native Turkey. Baris is also an artist and a musician. Nina recently learned how to make baklava, which has led to other culinary pursuits. To listen to the Nina and Baris podcast, click below on the white, right-pointing triangle (arrow) on top of an orange circular background. If you see two options below, we recommend using the "Listen in browser" option as opposed to the "Play on SoundCloud" option. This podcast is 47m54s in duration. If you would like to provide feedback to Mike about this podcast, or discuss other matters related to this podcast series, please either reply to this posting, or send Mike a private message (@OldMikeNY is his display name here on CL), or email to mikeseeemail@gmail.com. If you would like to share this podcast with family and friends, simply provide them the following URL, but remember that CL membership is required to view this content: http://www.chiriqui.life/topic/4456-chiriquilife-stories-10-nina-kieh-and-baris-ger/

An interesting typo in the title of the article. http://www.newsroompanama.com/business/panama-4/foreign-investment-panama-near-8

http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/400-cases-year-false-notary-statements

http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/opinion-css-crisis-needs-new-boss

Bob, Send a copy of the PowerPoint to support@chiriqui.life and I will get it posted here for you.

Glad to hear that TwoSailors got their slow response issue resolved. And thanks to TwinWolf for providing really good background about and recommendations for ways to move forward. Everyone has won here, thanks to TwoSailors for asking, and TwinWolf for his excellent help.

TwoSailors did inquire whether CL was having difficulty. We appreciate the manner in which they are trying to resolve a CL response time issue. If any other CL members are experiencing slow response times, and especially where other visited websites appear to be fast, please let us know. You can either post a reply here or send an email to support@chiriqui.life. We would also need to know who your servicing ISP is. For any having this kind of problem, we are sorry that you are being impacted, and will do what we can to resolve the issue pronto.

The health care resource listing here on CL is maintained by Mary Lynah. She may be contacted by email at MHLynah@gmail.com. I will accept and post relevant information from others, but would prefer to have Mary's sage advice.

Posting a comment here to re-queue this topic in the activity stream. The JPGs were damaged in the source documents and have been repaired so that they will display.

ICAO -- the International Civil Aviation Irganization -- is "the official" organization that is responsible for these kinds of aviation management responsibilities. It has worldwide authority, and is chartered by the U.N. http://www.icao.int/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/ex-first-lady-office-embezzlement-trial

http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/uv-alert-precedes-christmas-parade

http://www.newsroompanama.com/business/latin-america-2/panama-%e2%80%93-chile-trade-expanding/66420

http://www.prensa.com/in_english/Helicoptero-ambulancia-llego-Panama_21_4642245730.html

This is the ninth in a series of audio podcasts by Michael Schwartz -- Chiriqui Life Stories. This new podcast is a conversation with Susan Clare. Susan was born and raised in New York. She talks about the challenges of her young years that got her involved with both alcohol and drugs. As a young adult she decided that she wanted more for her life and so she changed her outlook and actions. She has advanced degrees, but changed career paths on several occasions as she was finding what worked best for her. She eventually came to Central America, spent one year in Costa Rica, and then settled in Boquete about five years ago. Susan now teaches Pilates at the Haven Spa. To listen to Susan's podcast, click below on the white, right-pointing triangle (arrow) on top of an orange circular background. If you see two options below, we recommend using the "Listen in browser" option as opposed to the "Play on SoundCloud" option. This podcast is 43m28s in duration. If you would like to provide feedback to Mike about this podcast, or discuss other matters related to this podcast series, please either reply to this posting, or send Mike a private message (@OldMikeNY is his display name here on CL), or email to mikeseeemail@gmail.com. If you would like to share this podcast with family and friends, simply provide them the following URL, but remember that CL membership is required to view this content: http://www.chiriqui.life/topic/4323-chiriquilife-stories-09-susan-clare/

Admin_01 Note: With the prior approval of News Lady, the topic of Otto that had been posted (along with its replies) in the News Boquete forum has been merged into this topic. I also merged another topic that was related to the heavy rains here in Panama. The rationale is that there was confusion about where to post, given that there were two simultaneous topics on the same subject. This was the first time that a topic in the News Boquete forum has been moved out of that forum. Hopefully everyone can understand these unusual circumstances. I have also slightly modified the title for this topic to make it a bit more general.

This has been an interesting topic. The subject was brought to our attention verbally by a non-member of CL (and thus no CL posting privileges). That person requested that this information be published. We normally do not post content for the public, but felt this might be more of a community service rather than an individual interest type post, and so we consented. We did no vetting and took the web link at face value. Now it turns out that out that CL's members have filled in a lot of background information. Thank you for doing that. Given this additional information, we did do a bit of research this morning. It does appear that Major General Stubblebine is still alive (no evidence of his passing could be found; note that Wikipedia among other websites has an article on him). There also appears to be a bit of conspiracy theory involvement on his part after his retirement, but I won't elaborate further on that. Insofar as Dr. Rima E. Laibow is concerned, there are a lot of websites discussing her "achievements", thoughts, and claims. Some of that information involves ebola, nano-silver treatments, cancer treatments, CIA mind "raping" experiments, etc. I choose not to pursue any of that any further. The bottom line here is that the Chiriquí Times website, although still active, is not a new and probably not a viable media resource. We could find no information cutoff dates for the content that is displayed on that website. Our recommendation is to let this topic fade into history. We do not see a reason to remove this content, but could "lock" this topic if our members think it appropriate. Your feedback and suggestions are solicited.

Next Tuesday is November 15th.

This topic is now locked (closed), as requested by the originator.

Dottie, I would have come to your aid earlier, but have to use [unreliable, slow and expensive] satellite Internet access at this time. The issue was that you had two typos in the URL link (left the terminating 'a' off of the word 'spaypanama' and duplicated the 'http' prefix'). Computers can be very unforgiving (and unapologetic). I have corrected ALL of your posts here. Have a great day.

http://www.centralamericadata.com/en/article/main/Internet_Services_Awarded_for_22_million

This is the eighth in a series of audio podcasts by Michael Schwartz -- Chiriqui Life Stories. The subject of this podcast is David van Harn. David became interested in Boquete because of recommendations on the Internet, plus discovering the Boquete Jazz and Blues Festival, an annual event held in Boquete early each year. He decided to give the Chiriqui highlands a try, and immediately fell in love with Boquete. David has had an interesting career, and some setbacks, but his attitude and outlook is very positive and upbeat. To listen to David's podcast, click below on the white, right-pointing triangle (arrow) on top of an orange circular background. If you see two options below, we recommend using the "Listen in browser" option as opposed to the "Play on SoundCloud" option. This podcast is 33m40s in duration. If you would like to provide feedback to Mike about this podcast, or discuss other matters related to this podcast series, please either reply to this posting, or send Mike a private message (@OldMikeNY is his display name here on CL), or email to mikeseeemail@gmail.com. If you would like to share this podcast with family and friends, simply provide them the following URL, but remember that CL membership is required to view this content: http://www.chiriqui.life/topic/3920-chiriquilife-stories-08-david-van-harn/

Dottie, per member request (actually 'insistence') immediately after CL went online, all classified ads are restricted from allowing replies. Admins and moderators on CL have special permission to post without restriction.